Do you still listen to Mellow Gold?
 

Dig out the cd last night and listen to it this morning. not sure it is as good as it was.

It was..Fantatsic. I am surprised it hasn't had the deluxe treatment...

Mellow Gold is so great. I prefer it loads more than Odelay.

http://ca.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3044B78F87F3E3F7

There was retrospective a few years ago...

MuthaF**** was one of the first songs I learned how to play...

Mellow Gold is excellent. I prefer Odelay, but Mellow Gold is still one of my favorites of his.

I listen to it a lot still. I've always thought it was superior to Odelay. In my opinion the trilogy of Mellow Gold, One Foot In The Grave, and Stereopathetic Soul Manure is pretty unfuckingtouchable in his discography. Three brilliant and sooo different records in such a short span of time.

What are his two indie records like? Do they have great hip-hop beats or anything?

Yeah I do, and I've probably grown to like it more over the last two years. Midnight Vultures used to be my favorite, but all the songs I didn't used to like off Mellow Gold--Sweet Sunshine, Truckdrivin', Whiskey Cyclone--are unbeatable in retrospect. I didn't have a very refined taste when I first got it, so yeah, I haven't even begun to appreciate it fully.

Things are gonna change i can feel it..

Hehe, I think you mean Whiskey Clone. Whiskey Cyclone sounds like a bad-ass cocktail though.

I put Odelay in the car on the way back to Portland from Olympia on New Year's Day (I had my club dj discs in the car, and had played "New Pollution" the night before) right after listening to Goo. I did not make it all the way through. Some o.k. songs for the right context, but I could never listen to that like it was a significant album.

I'm sure Mellow Gold would be the same if I'd ever owned a copy.

Nah, Mellow Gold is totally different. It's less "party" and more "this is what I think about things"

Zero, i see it as a party album for the most part i.e. Fuckin' with My Head and Truck Driving Neighbors. But is also has some of cool deeper vibe too like Steal My Body Home..great song. I think he's both for the most part. He made his name with the slacker thing.. funny, life is a drag, lyrics.

Dude Truck Driving Neighbors is one of the most depressing songs ever, hardly a party starter!

i still haven't listened to one song off of it aside from "loser".

The music may be drony, but its the lyrical content that make it funny and partyish to me. And Loser? That is a party song

Oh yeah, of course Loser.

Well, I can barely listen to this whole album cuz of nostalgia. Yeah. A decade ago, I was with my first boyfriend, love at first sight kinda thing, we listened to this album a lot. We'd put on whiskey clone hotel or steal my body home and completely tune out from the rest of the world , or we'd play motherfucker spliced between nirvana and skinny puppy and flail around his place while the parents werent home.

Steal my body home is still good.

alteredcourse is a girl?
*adds to list*
or gay?

maybe that's part of the problem.

Hahahaha

Actually, I mean Whiskeyclone, you snide bastard. :p

But really, I've always though it was cyclone. I don't even know what to think anymore.

No.

One Foot In The Grave is a lo-fi blues and folk album and Stereopathetic Soulmanure is a showcase of country ballads, noise rock, banjo instrumentals, stoner diary entries.. etc. Beck at the top of his game. Audible transistions from his early demo tapes like Don't Get Bent Out Of Shape and Fresh Meat
to Mellow Gold.

And yeah, I do still listen to Mellow Gold. Each track is something special. I like how Beck transposes that down-home bluesman feel to his very much metropolitan LA life. There are some touching moments here on this album, also some fun poppin and lockin jams.

Fuck labeling Odelay as a party album, too, as if it has no substance to it. If you want a party album, listen to friggin' Midnite Vultures. Has anyone even listened to the lyrics on Odelay? "Yo soy un disco quebrado", from Hotwax, or "Watch me die in my suicide ride" from Novacane? He does a good job of hiding his feelings, but they are there. That's been one of Beck's recurring problems though, he's not honest enough, like he used to be. No wonder Modern Guilt is so depressing.

Hmm by the sounds of it, his Indie stuff wouldn't appeal to me a great deal.

Is One Foot In The Grave OOP? If so, can someone upload it?

If not, don't bother. I've just never seen it before, except sitting a friend's roommate's boyfriend's CD crate once.

Mellow Gold is a good album. Its dynamic, has a song or two for most basic moods one could expect. My favorites are the slower songs (Steal My Body Home, Blackhole, Whiskey Clone)

I have to disagree with this a bit. While some of the songs off Modern Guilt aren't his "best"m or the lyrics may not seem to have as much "substance", I feel that some of the lyrics from the songs are very revealing.

"Don't know what I've done, but I feel ashamed" from the song Modern Guilt, the lyrics for Chemtrails is darker than his other recent stuff, "Some days are worse than you can imagine, How am I supposed to live with that" from Walls, or how about "I'm tired of people who only want to be pleased" from Volcano. I'm not saying the album Modern Guilt is amazing, or his best, but I think it wasn't as bad as some people made it out to be.

No, I agree with you here, what I meant is that Modern Guilt is the culmination of a lot of bottled-up feelings.

You should be able to find a re-issue at your local hipster record store. If not, definitely online.